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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1989 BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this fourteenth day of November, 1989, that the Zoning Map of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, be--and is hereby--amended to the extent that a certain tract of land (identified as Lot One from an "out-parcel" of the Ruddco project site) situated on the northeast side of Brookdale Street, near its intersection with Spruce Street, is hereby rezoned from C-1 Commercial to C1-A COmmercial. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by said Council that, an emergency existing, this ordinance shall be in force on and after November 15, 1989. In unanimous acceptance of a recommendation from the Planning Commission, Council directed that.the Special-Use Permit issued by Council's action of October 14, 1986, (and subsequently extended as of April 20, 1989), to Adkins Construction Corporation, for the construction of a 62-unit townhouse development off the west side of Spruce Street, be modified to provide for forty-nine (49) such units, as requested by Adkins Construction Corporation, the developer. In accordance with a request filed by the Martinsville-Henry County Economic Development Corporation, Council unanimously extended and reinstated a purchase-option agreement between the City and the EDC for 'the marketing of City-owned tracts within the City's Industrial Park (which agreement expired May 23, 1989), with such extension to be retroactive to May 24, 1989, and to continue through December 31, 1989. Meanwhile, Council authorized City Manager Brown to enter into negotiations with the EDC for the development of a new such agreement to become effective January 1, 1990, after approval by the two parties thereto. Council unanimously adopted the following resolution in support of a proposal by Mr. W. Allen Adams (and his HABCO Construction of Martinsville) to construct